2020 strikes again. We were to go rafting in Hell’s Canyon this coming week, but a rockslide closed the only direct road to it (from our direction). I’ve already been to Hell (Grand Caymans) and the Gates of Hell (Stanford campus), so I was looking forward to Hell’s Canyon. Hopefully later this year. On that […]
Tag: Music
Things are going to be busier than normal until year-end. We’re packing up our house over the next week, then camping out in our home for a couple of weeks before the sale closes. Working on finishing up the semester for the boys is taking more work than getting them enrolled in their new schools, […]
Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk by John Doe, with Tome DeSavia and Friends Da Capo Press, 2016 Hardcover, 336 pages Under the Big Black Sun explores the nascent Los Angeles punk rock movement and its evolution to hardcore punk as it’s never been told before. Authors John Doe and […]
The poetry of Ronnie Lane…two songs that capture some challenging aspects of father/son dynamics. In a good way, at least to me.
I feel like I need to apologize for blog silence lately. I’ll pass on the enjoyable find I stumbled across today on Shout Factory TV: Graham Parker And The Rumour: This Is Live. “Filmed for a scene in Judd Apatow’s 2012 motion picture This Is 40, Graham Parker & The Rumour: This Is Live presents […]
We’ve had Shout! Factory TV as a mainstay on our TV for a while but a current listing almost escaped my notice, so I wanted to pass it on to anyone else interested. Currently there are a few episodes from the Fridays TV series from their first season on ABC in 1980. I completely missed […]
The Minutemen: Mike Watt, D. Boon, George Hurley I owe a debt of gratitude to Dangerous Minds for their post Minutemen Unplugged: Punk Legends’ Rollicking Acoustic Jam on Cable Access TV, 1985. Their post covers the important points of the short performance, although when I saw them in Dallas earlier that year (1985) their set […]
If anyone else in the San Francisco Bar area is interested in seeing The Lowest Pair at Doc’s Lab on September 8th, drop me a note here or via email (see my Profile). I’d love to meet up with some of you and enjoy the evening together. I know…bluegrass/roots music isn’t for everyone, but this […]
Check out these crazy kids performing in Athens on the Hill of Muses in the summer of 1989, covering Van Morrison’s “Foreign Windows” and “One Irish Rover.” I hope they have accomplished something since then…it looks like they’re up to no good here. For more on the collaboration, click here.